Satan Flashcards
“The sun was sunk, and after him the star”
Sibilance
Cosmic collapse
Builds up tension, gradual
LINE 53
Satan “fled before the threats (…) fearless returned”
Emphasis of fled
Disturbing subversion of Christ’s resurrection
LINE 63
“The space of seven continued nights he rode / with darkness”
Circular journey around equinox
Subversion of epic journey
Dark echo of god creating world with Satan creating what destroys world
Comes back on 8th, not 7th
All of this is futile, predator circling, growing danger A & E aren’t aware of
PAGE 33
“S(…)A(…)T(…)A(…)N”
Spells out “SATAN” using an acrostic whilst he is in the garden of Eden
Satan is CONCEALED like he is concealed in the lines
LINE 422
“Eve separate, he wished, but not with hope of what so seldom chanced, when to his wish, beyond his hope”
Syntax and language twist and méandre
Circular, like shape
LINE 437
“Among thick woven arborets”
“Thick” reflects Adam and Eve’s lustful sex scene
Weaving through things ironically placed by eve
LINE 467
“But the hot Hell that always in him burns”
“I myself am hell”
Twisted morals
Hell is within him
Inherent evil
ASPIRANT alliteration: reflects burning
Beginning page 34
“Fairest (…) celestial beauty adore (…) ravissement (…) universally admired”
LINE 550
“So glazed the tempter and his proem tuned”
- Lexical field of admiration, flattery
He is deceiving - Theatrical, all of this is pretentious
Line 582
“Goat dropping with milk at even, / Unsucked of lamb or kid”
Unrealised potential
Eve has no mother
She has no children
Her realising she wants a child
LINE 667
“New parts put on”
Metatheatrical
LINES 710
“Since I as Man, / Internal Man, is but proportion meets,/ I of brute human, ye of human gods.”
Distortion of greate chain of being
Convoluted
733
“He ended, and his words replete with guile / into her heart too easy entrance won”
Entered - sense of corruption
Loss of innocence - surrogate rape?
Taking control over the female body
Guttural
Line 1038
“Thick overhead with verdant roof embowered”
Reflects Satan being concealed
LINE 158
“Thus wrapped in mist / Of midnight vapour glide obscure”
Deceptive and aligned with the elements
Feel sorry for satan
